Including the closely related terms trees, planting, and tree planting.
… projects that reduce GHG emissions (e.g. tree planting) By the end of 2021 Low Sonia Grewal (Becky Clinton & Helena Robinson) All SBC staff are able to use up to two paid days a year on volunteering support in the Borough. The uptake and engagement with this initiative will be monitored. Swindon Borough – supporting residents and organisations to transition to net zero…
… sponsor Commentary E1 350 hectares of woodland being planted across the Great Western Community Forest over the five-year period of the programme – approx. 500,000 trees in total 2025 Dave Dewart / Carol Bristow With the town of Swindon at its heart, the Forest covers over 168 square miles, stretching from the North Wessex Downs to the River Thames. An initial £12m of grant funding…
… for the first planting session in 2020/21 was secured from the UK Government’s Nature for Climate fund. Just over 18 hectares of new woodland and trees planted by the end of March 2021 – equating to around 20,000 trees. E2 Work in partnership to develop proposals for large scale habitat creation projects and secure funding to deliver schemes that can sequester carbon Ongoing Kimberly Corps…
… England. F8 Work in partnership with our tenant farmers to increase the biodiversity potential of their farmland through land use diversification and alternative planting regimes Ongoing Rob Richards / David Dewart Work is ongoing to identify areas of tenanted farmland and other SBC own land available for tree planting using the funding it has secured for the Great Western Community…
… from the environment. This can be achieved by a combination of emission reduction and emission removal. When the amount of GHG emissions produced by a country, organisation or place are cancelled out by the amount removed, it will be a net zero emitter. GHG emissions can be removed by the natural environment (e.g. stored in soils, trees and the ocean) or by using technologies like carbon capture…